Amy Townsend, Twin - Twin of whom?

http://www.heapgen.org/mw/7432.htm Here's a site that says that Amy and Mary were twins, born in 1622.

Something is clearly wrong with Mary Stith probably a bad merge at some past time.

Thomas and Mary (Newgate) Townsend married in 1620 so Mary Stith is not their daughter.

I am guessing that Mary Townsend, b. 1622, Twin got somehow merged into Mary Stith.

Yep, a lot of odd merging of Mary Stith such that she ends up dying in Charles City, VA even though if you look at the early Revisions, she was a Twin and born in Norfolk, England in 1622.

So there's your answer. You uncovered a mess with your question.

hatte lol once is fine..

Hatte Blejer, you're as bad as Erica Howton. :) I post a public question to distribute the workload and you can't help but dig in! :) Thanks for figuring out the little mystery.

And people still ask why so many of us MP children who die young.

Private User are you okay with me cutting Mary Stith from the Townsends? That would make it easy to recreate the twin Mary and leave yours where she is, then make corrections from there, but I want to be mindful of your note before I go doing anything.

Private User, yes, by all means, cut away.

Hatte Blejer, we were just talking the other day about families with connections in both New England and Virginia. Here is one of those rare occasions.

Private User -- you know me, I get instant gratification from solving problems. I like them to be solvable fairly easily and quickly, and to present a bit of a challenge to my analytical skills :)

Private User -- does she have New England connections or was this just a bad merge?

@Hatte - Mary Townsend who died in Virginia had family who went to various parts of New England. As far as I know, she never went there. She married a Stith and emigrated to Virginia. Stiths are one of the VA founding families.

Her father and mother died in Lynn, Massachusetts. Her youngest siblings may have been born there. Her brother Robert Townsend died in New Hampshire. Her sister Elizabeth Ballard married a Merriam from Concord, Mass.

Thanks! Fascinated.

Can we revisit this area?

Mary Stith is showing as born before her parents.

The source site has her birthdate as 1622

http://www.ourfamtree.org/browse.php/Mary-Townsend/p79821

Same as Mary [[twin]]

But I'm also wondering if there isn't a better attribution. This Townsend tree seems to have every Townsend ever born between 1570 and 1670, which don't seem right. :)

Thanks for the help & advice.